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Mason divides objects in the (luesde antiquities into the follow- 

 ing groups: (1) Unpolished implements; (2) polished blades with- 

 out haft-grooves: (3) faces continuous, sides incurved or notched; 

 (4) butt distinct, faces not continuous; (5) blades with hooked 

 edges; (6) blades with encircling grooves; (7) hammers, grinders, 

 and polishers; (8) jierforated stones ; (9) ornamental forms. 



The author has adopted one or two of these groups, but certain 

 features unrecognized as of importance by others has led him to 

 remodel the existing classification of these West Indian objects. 



In the author's classification of Guadeloupe antiquities the first of 

 Mason's groups is wholly eliminated and does not appear as a dis- 

 tinct type; his second group practically includes petaloid celts, while 

 his third and fourth groups are broken up into minor divisions. 

 His fifth group is regarded as composed of two distinct types, blades, 

 and grinders, the appropriate place for the latter being his seventh 

 or the author's sixth group. 



The stone objects from Guadeloupe studied by the author are here 

 considered under the following headings : 



1. Axes with regular margins. 



2. Axes with asymmetrical margins. 



3. Eared axes. 



4. Engraved axes. 



5. Perforated axes. 



6. Anchor axes. 



7. Incised and perforated stones. 



8. Problematical stones. 



9. Mortars. 



10. Pestles, grinders, and hammers. 



1. AXES WITH REGULAR MARGINS 



The greater number of axes from Guadeloupe belong to this type 

 or those stone implements with regular margins. Their form ap- 

 proaches closely that of similar axes already described as found in 

 great numbers in the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, to which 

 area Guadeloupe is allied in pottery and bone and shell objects. 

 Only a very small percentage of petaloid implements occur in Guade- 

 loupe, while in Porto Eico the majority belong to this group. 



2. AXES WITH ASYMMETRICAL MARGINS 



The three axes, plate 71, A, B, C, ascribed to the Guadeloupe area, 

 seem more characteristic of the St. Vincent area. 



Plate 71, C, has on one side a rectangular projection and a slightly 

 incurved edge on the other. What appears to be a like object is 

 represented by Mason in his figure 46 and described as follows: 

 "A curiously formed blade of dark color and highly polished. It is 



